Matthew Elliott

Partner Mergers & Acquisitions Private Equity

Kirkland & Ellis International LLP

M +44 77 9977 2311

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Overview

Matt is the most sought-after adviser in our industry, and embodies the focus and performance that Kirkland prides itself on.” - Chambers UK, 2024

Matthew is a corporate partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP and a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee.

His practice focuses on private equity and real estate, advising a full range of stakeholders across public and private corporate transactions, M&A, joint ventures and securities offerings.

Matthew has been recognized as a leading private equity lawyer in the 2026 editions of Chambers UK and The Legal 500 UK and the 2025 edition of IFLR1000. He was also named one of the “Twenty Most Influential in Real Estate” by Private Equity News (2025).

External Recognition

Chambers & Partners UK: Recognised as a leading lawyer for UK-wide Private Equity: Buyouts for his “unparalleled service and commercial, pragmatic and strategic advice.” (2025)
The Legal 500 UK: Recognised as a “Leading Individual” (2025)
Private Equity News: Listed in the “Twenty Most Influential in Real Estate” (2025)
IFLR1000: Recognised as “Highly Regarded” (2024)
The Lawyer Hot 100: Listed as a dealmaker which states “Since arriving at Kirkland, Elliott has made his mark as the firm’s leading real estate private equity partner in the City.” (2018)

Experience

GLP Capital Partners on the acquisition by Ares to create a global real estate alternative asset platform

TA Associates, GI Partners and Harvest Partners-Backed MRI Software on their agreement to acquire Capita One

An ad hoc committee of creditors, including Strategic Value Partners, Cross Ocean and Deutsche Bank, on the successful $2.2 billion restructuring of the Intu SGS Group

GIC:

alongside CPPIB and Equinix to co-Invest in a $15 billion digital infrastructure platform
on its joint venture with Blackstone relating to Hotel Investment Partners (HIP), a leading owner of 72 resort hotels in Southern Europe totalling 21,000 keys
on its partnership with BlackRock Alternatives Real Estate, British Airways’ New Airways Pensions Scheme and REEF Group for the development of Tribeca, Kings Cross, London, a life sciences quarter
on its establishment of a €400 million joint venture platform with Melcombe Partners, a UK-based asset manager and adviser
on the acquisition of an Enterprise Value logistics portfolio located in northeast England
on the £694 million acquisition of a 75% stake in the majority of Paddington Central assets from British Land
on its $525 million joint venture with Equinix to develop and operate two xScale™ data centres in South Korea
on the capital increase and associated refinancing of AccorInvest Group
on its $3.9 billion additional joint ventures with Equinix to expand the xScale™ data centre programme
on its joint venture with Kennedy Wilson to acquire and manage urban logistics properties in the UK, Ireland and Spain, targeting total assets of $1 billion
on its joint venture with Melcombe Partners to acquire and develop urban logistics properties in Europe
on the over $1 billion co-investment with Equinix to develop and operate xScale™ data centres in Japan
on the €950 million buyout acquisition of a pan-European logistics platform from Apollo
on the $1 billion acquisition of Equinix Inc’s pan European hyperscale data centre business
as part of the c. €4.4 billion consortium acquiring a 55% a stake in the real estate assets of French multinational hotel group AccorHotels
on its €2.4 billion acquisition of P3 Logistic Parks, a leading specialist pan-European owner, developer and manager of logistics properties, from TPG Real Estate and Ivanhoé Cambridge
on the sale of its stake in Spanish real estate company Axiare Patrimonio as a pre-cursor to the €1.46 billion takeover bid for Axiare by Inmobilaria Colonial, a leading multinational property group headquartered in Spain

Digital 9 infrastructure plc on the sale to Ardian of 100% of Verne Global, a leading data center platform diversified across the UK and Nordics Verne Global’s Northern European data center platform includes five data center campuses in London, Iceland and Finland. It provides highly specialised data center services for organisations running high-performance computing (HPC) workloads, notably AI, machine learning and Large Language Models

Centerbridge Partners on the sale of its majority interests in APCOA

WHP Global on its acquisition of a majority interest in G-Star RAW

Altera Infrastructure L.P. on successfully emerging from Chapter 11

Coral Tree Partners on the acquisition of AMI Entertainment Network

Sani/Ikos Group on its recapitalization and strategic partnership agreement with GIC

Macquarie Asset Management on the strategic real estate partnership with NTT’s wholesale facilities across Europe and North America

Brookfield:

on the sale of Tritax EuroBox’s assets to SEGRO
and Altera Infrastructure on the sale of Altera Shuttle Tankers to the Angelicoussis Group
on the recommended cash offer for Tritax EuroBox
on the sale of Student Roost to a joint venture formed between GIC and Greystar
on the €1.089 billion recommended cash offer for Hibernia REIT
on the all-cash voluntary public takeover offer for Befimmo SA
on the c. €4.7 billion public takeover offer for alstria office REIT-AG
on its c. £3 billion consortium bid for Intu plc
on its £430 million acquisition and financing of the SACO apart-hotel platform from Oaktree
on its acquisition of GL Europe RE Holdings SARL, a U.K. student accommodation platform, from Avenue Capital
on its successful (non-recommended) takeover of Songbird Estates PLC and Canary Wharf Group in consortium with Qatar Investment Authority

A sovereign wealth fund on the acquisition of a pan-European logistics portfolio for over €3 billion from EQT Exeter

TPG:

on the successful tender offer and the acquisition of a majority stake in Studio Babelsberg AG
on its strategic joint venture with Gatehouse Bank
on its c. €300 million acquisition of Spanish Real Estate Investment Trust, Témpore Properties
on the joint venture acquisition with Round Hill Capital of a student and residential housing platform in Lisbon, Portugal

Eagle Street on its joint venture with Nuveen Real Estate and HESTA to acquire a Build to Rent asset in Dublin

Gazit Hercules 2020 Limited (Newco) on the definitive merger agreement for a recommended cash acquisition of Atrium European Real Estate Limited

Ares:

on the £400 million preferred equity investment in McLaren Group
on its CHF 200 million investment into Peach Property Group AG
on the acquisition of a portfolio of mixed use commercial properties across Europe

Patient Square Capital on its investment in Apollo Therapeutics, a portfolio-based biopharmaceutical company

Starwood Capital Group:

on its strategic investment in Echelon Data Centres
and SOF-12 Cambridge BidCo Limited, owned by Starwood Funds, on the c. £467.9 million recommended cash offer for RDI REIT
on the intention to launch a Public Takeover Offer for CA Immobilien Anlagen AG
on the acquisition of a 29.42% stake in London-listed RDI Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT)

AXA Investment Managers - Real Assets on the acquisition of the Kadans Science Partner platform

Tokio Marine HCC on its acquisition of GCube

Hospital Topco, majority owned by Centerbridge and KKR, on the c.£1.8 billion disposal of BMI Healthcare and the GHG Group

The Marshall Retail Group on its $400 million sale to WH Smith

Gazit-Globe Limited on the recommended €1.4 billion offer for Atrium European Real Estate Limited

Oaktree Capital Management:

on the sale of its Spanish student housing business to GSA
on the carve out and sale of its UK student housing business to a consortium of GIC and global student accommodation firm GSA

Wyndham on the $1.3 billion disposal of the European agency business of Wyndham to Platinum Equity

Linklaters

Partner, 2010–2015
Managing Associate, 2004–2010
Associate, 2000–2004
Trainee Solicitor (Linklaters Tokyo), 1999–2000
Trainee Solicitor, 1998–1999

Matthew Elliott

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